On Nov. 27, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its CY 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule in addition to its CY 2014 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule. The pathology and laboratory community was especially anxious for the release of this year’s final rules, which was delayed due to the government shutdown.
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ASCP, Laboratory Community Anxiously Awaiting PFS/OPPS Final Rules
ASCP and the rest of the laboratory community are anxiously awaiting the release of the CY 2014 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)/Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Final Rules. By statute, these rules are supposed to be published 60 days before their Jan.1, 2014 implementation date. However, the shutdown of the federal government complicated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ability to roll-out these rules on time.
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ASCP Members Flood CMS with Letters Over PFS/CLFS Proposed Rule
ASCP members have rallied to make their voices heard in a concerted campaign to change the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ 2014 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) Proposed Rule. More than 2,200 letters made their way to the agency through the ASCP e-Advocacy Center in response to several ASCP action alerts about CMS’s proposed cap on non-facility Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) payment rates.
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Please help ASCP to protect our patients by encouraging your members of Congress to support Stark reform and the passage of PIMA. You can access our draft letter on this issue, customize it to your liking, share it with friends, and send it to Congress through the ASCP eAdvocacy Center.
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